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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Michael Lambek

Michael Lambek publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Global Maritime and Colonial Histories, Anthropological Studies and Insights and Religion and Society Interactions.

ORCID 0000-0003-4629-1301 OpenAlex
World rank
#35,868
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#932
of 183,316
Works
259
Citations
7.8k
Citations per work
30.2
h-index
37
i10-index 83Top 1% in Anthropology
Michael Lambek

What does Michael Lambek research?

Michael Lambek's work is mostly in Social Sciences (63%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 178 works · 68.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 164 works · 63.2% of their workAnthropology: 74 works · 28.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 56 works · 21.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 7.0% of their workDemography: 8 works · 3.2% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 7 works · 2.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 5.5% of their workPhilosophy: 14 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 81 works · 31.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Lambek259works
Social Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences16463.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities145.5%
  2. Everything else8131.3%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5Demography3% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Lambek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Colonialism, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Religion.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization753 topics
  2. Colonialism632 topics
  3. Indian Ocean591 topic
  4. prehistoric movement591 topic
  5. Governmentality511 topic
  6. Neoliberalism511 topic
  7. Nationalism272 topics
  8. Religion151 topic
  9. Secularism151 topic
  10. African History121 topic
  11. Post-Colonial Africa121 topic
  12. Healthcare Access111 topic
  13. Migration111 topic
  14. Anthropology91 topic
  15. Immigration91 topic
  16. Military91 topic
  17. Remittances91 topic
  18. Atlantic History81 topic
  19. Transatlantic Slave Trade81 topic

Where does Michael Lambek work?

Michael Lambek's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Michael Lambek have?

OpenAlex counts 259 works and 7,812 citations for Michael Lambek, an h-index of 37, ranking #35,868 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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